Pagan Mythology and the Christian Religion in the Poetry and Prose of John Keats
Title | Pagan Mythology and the Christian Religion in the Poetry and Prose of John Keats PDF eBook |
Author | William Ransom Wood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 634 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | Bible |
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Pagan Myth and Christian Tradition in English Poetry
Title | Pagan Myth and Christian Tradition in English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Bush |
Publisher | Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature Volume XX
Title | Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature Volume XX PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 314 |
Release | |
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The Myth of Paganism
Title | The Myth of Paganism PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Shorrock |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2013-10-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1472519663 |
Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between 'pagan' and 'Christian' forms of poetry: whereas Christian poetry is taken seriously in terms its contribution to culture and society at large, so-called pagan or secular poetry is largely ignored, as though it has no meaningful part to play within the late antique world. The Myth of Paganism sets out to deconstruct this view of two contrasting poetic traditions and proposes in its place a new integrated model for the understanding of late antique poetry. As the book argues, the poet of Christ and the poet of the Muses were drawn together into an active, often provocative, dialogue about the relationship between Christianity and the Classical tradition and, ultimately, about the meaning of late antiquity itself. An analysis of the poetry of Nonnus of Panopolis, author of both a 'pagan' epic about Dionysus and a Christian translation of St John's Gospel, helps to illustrate this complex dialectic between pagan and Christian voices.
Studies in Philology
Title | Studies in Philology PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 746 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Electronic journals |
ISBN |
Religion and Myth in English Poetry
Title | Religion and Myth in English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Debbie Barry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2013-06-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781490356204 |
The poetry of William Blake and of John Keats is representative of the Romantic period of English poetry, just as the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and of Alfred Lord Tennyson represents the Victorian era and the poetry of William Butler Yeats represents Modern poetry. The poetry of Blake and of Keats expresses the dichotomy between the innocence of youth and the experience of life. Blake uses traditional symbols from Christian religion to express innocence and purity, and Keats uses a combination of Judeo-Christian religious imagery and Roman mythological imagery to express experience. In the Victorian era, Browning uses Blake's religious imagery to express the premature experience of children in industrialized England, and Tennyson uses Arthurian mythological imagery to express the loss of innocence. In the Modern age, Yeats uses imagery from Greek and Irish mythology and from Judeo-Christian religious beliefs to express sadness at the loss of beauty and innocence in the world. From the work of Blake and Keats to the work of Yeats, the use of religious and mythological imagery begins with images of hope and faith in the Romantic era, becomes more intellectual and conflicts with science in the Victorian period, and passes through the metaphysical to focus on the sadness of loss in the twentieth century.
Poems of Paganism; or, Songs of Life and Love
Title | Poems of Paganism; or, Songs of Life and Love PDF eBook |
Author | Paganus |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 93 |
Release | 2020-08-06 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1528767969 |
Originating from the Christian community of southern Europe during late antiquity, the term 'pagan' was used to refer to any religions that were not related the three Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. “Poems of Paganism; or, Songs of Life and Love” is collection of 60 'pagan' songs compiled by L. Cranmer-Byng and first published in 1895. Contents include: “A Patriot Poet”, “A Prayer for Peace”, “All that I Have”, “Au Revoir—Not Adieu!”, “Christian and Pagan”, “Cloud, Wind and Rain”, “Concerning Truth and Art”, “Cupid's Sleep”, “Despair”, “Good-bye, Love!”, “Haunted”, “Heart of Stone”, “Hesitation”, “Homeward Bound”, “Ignorant Roses”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of poetry.